Events that led to the murder

Verdict

King will be sentenced on Monday. We’ll have live updates from the sentencing on this blog.

13:13

Lunch time

The jury are breaking for lunch now so there will be no verdict before 2pm.

Here is the evidence heard so far.

And this is the victim in the case, Gareth Atkinson.

Gareth Atkinson who died after he was found badly hurt in Lockwood

11:07

Jury back out

The jury has retired to continue deliberations

10:30

Jury are back in the courtroom

The judge is reading some of neighbour Mr Clayton’s evidence to the jury following their question yesterday afternoon.

10:14

Reporter in court for day 10

Our reporter is back in court for day 10 of the trial.

16:16

Jury sent home

Jury sent home until 10am tomorrow.

15:05

Jury back deliberating

The jury have left the courtroom to continue deliberations.

14:54

Jury's requests partially fulfilled

The judge told the jury: “You can’t have any witness statements like that. . .

“No transcript is produced of their evidence. I obviously take a note and it was from that that I was giving you a summary of the evidence this morning.”

The jury foreman asked if the judge would like to know why they want this but he said no.

They are now being played the re-enactment again.

14:52

Jury's question

The judge read the jury’s question out to the court.

He said they want to review neighbour Mr and Mrs Clayton’s evidence, including their police statements and transcripts of their evidence in court.

He also said they want to see the re-enactment of what happened behind the flat’s door again.

14:43

A question from the jury

Jury are coming back with a question.

The public gallery is almost full.

Counsel, the judge and the defendants are still to come into the courtroom.

13:12

Lunch time

The jury have broken for lunch so there will be no verdict between now and 2pm.

11:51KEY EVENT

Round-up of evidence

11:45

Jury sent out to consider verdicts

The jury have now been sent out to deliberate.

11:44

Summing up more evidence

The judge said King said it was he who had accessed ExaminerLive’s live blog about the serious incident in Lockwood on Bowman’s phone and not her.

11:23

Summing up more evidence

The judge has summed up the expert evidence heard earlier in the trial.

He said he will not go through all of King’s ‘unpleasant’ messages again as the jury have heard them, but reminded them that the prosecution say they were examples of ‘a big man bigging himself up’ while the defence say it was ‘all talk’.

He has read out the other neighbours’ statements about the incident around eight hours before the stabbing, as well as King’s statement about that incident.

11:00

Summing up the evidence

The judge is summing up the evidence now.

He told the jury they have to decide what happened at the door, adding: “The stabbing of Mr Atkinson must have happened in a matter of seconds.”

He told them they have to consider whether it was an accident or deliberate.He is going through Miss Walker-Saunders’ neighbour Mr Clayton’s evidence first.

Mr Clayton said Mr Atkinson went back to his flat after drinking at the pub.

Mr Clayton said Mr Atkinson left his flat and went to Miss Walker-Saunders’ flat a few times between 7-9pm.

Mr Clayton said that around 9pm Miss Walker-Saunders came to their flat and said: “He’s tried to strangle me, he’s tried to kill me.”